The conservative CNS News site gets Michael Steele (about whom you can find more here) on record, telling Democrats to seat Roland Burris as the junior senator from Illinois.
Now, the Democrats have got their hands full, because they can seat him or not seat him, and the
The soap opera continues …
The secretary of the Senate this morning refused to seat Roland Burris, the former Illinois attorney general picked by embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) to replace President-elect Barack Obama in the upper chamber. Burris and Blagojevich have both insisted that the appointment is legal, More…
Well, that was the quick way to avoid charges of hypocrisy.
In the face of Republican opposition to the seating of Minnesota Democrat Al Franken, who was named the winner of his Senate contest yesterday, Senate Democrats have decided that Franken won’t be sworn in with the rest of More…
In the first week of the 111th Congress, Democrats already have themselves in a pickle.
Party leaders hoping to block the appointment of Roland Burris to replace President-elect Barack Obama in the U.S. Senate are pointing to the same legal technicality that Republicans hope to use to keep Minnesotan Al More…
It wasn’t the way the Democrats wanted to ring in the 111th Congress, particularly following their sweeping election wins in November.
Yet it appears that Roland Burris, the former Illinois attorney general appointed by embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) last month to fill Barack Obama’s vacant Senate seat, has More…
In eighth-grade civics, I learned that the U.S. Senate had, and would continue to have, 100 members. Well, Mr. Miller, seems you didn’t tell me the whole story.
When the new Senate is sworn in next week, it will most likely be a team of 98, following declarations by Senate More…
So does Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich have the right to appoint Roland Burris as the next senator from Illinois or doesn’t he?
A helpful analysis from CNN.com notes the following:
Article 1, Section 5 of the Constitution gives Congress the power to be “judge of the elections, returns and
Nice post, Matt, but I’m afraid you’re a bit off the mark. I wrote the real scoop on Burris and Blagojevich in the Washington City Paper, where I do my serious political reporting.
Not really sure how the MSM got this one so wrong.
There’s only one guy in the country who thinks that, in the wake of the Blagojevich scandal, it’s still business as usual in Springfield, Ill., and that’s Gov. Rod Blagojevich himself.
According to reports, the embattled governor, who was arrested earlier in the month for allegedly trying to sell the More…
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